I guess my memory of the last time I went there is a bit fuzzy.
Interestingly, the place in Sunnyvale that used to be Sambo's is still a
restaurant called Hobee's. Same basic architecture, so I still think of
it as Sambo's I guess.
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On 3/31/2019 5:28 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Hmmm, I went to the Wikipedia article on Sambo's and it's interesting
reading. As I suspected, the founder was named Sam, but then ... well,
check it out on Wikipedia.
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They had Sambos here in the bay area until the mid-late '90s.
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On 3/31/2019 1:26 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
We had Sambos restaurants in Oregon when I grew up.
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On Mar 31, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
Have they seen the original animated version? It has been kind of
buried because the depiction of the roustabouts and the jive-talking
crows are considered racist. On the other hand I always thought the
lesson of the movie was not to discriminate against a person (or
elephant) because of how they look, and that the roustabouts and crows
were depicted favorably vs.
the greedy circus owners. If you can get past the controversy, it is
one of the Disney classics. As a kid I loved the sequence where the
train goes through the rain and then the elephants and roustabouts
set up the circus in the next town. I guess maybe people would also
object to the grandkids seeing Dumbo get drunk. But who can forget "pink
elephants on parade"?
The reviews I have seen on the Tim Burton version have been negative,
style over substance, and with no heart.
As far as the controversy, at least not as bad as Song of the South,
which I don't believe has ever been released for home video. Not
really a classic of animation like Dumbo though. It does seem a
shame that anything derived from the Uncle Remus stories are banished
now. Br'er Rabbit and his friends came from African folk tales, and
I have always thought the story about the tar baby said a lot about human
nature, although it sounds quite offensive.
Sometimes a tar baby is just a baby made out of tar.
Cleaning out a bunch of books and taking them to an annual charity
book sale, I came across a copy of Little Black Sambo. That one did
not go to the book sale, they probably would have burned it. But
sometimes, watching the U.S. Congress or the U.K. Parliament, I expect
them to turn into butter.
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My grandkids hate my keyboard... security device I guess.
Saw Dumbo with them yesterday.
They seemed to like it, I thought it was pretty poor.
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